Show BIG BIB PACKER AS WAR TIME AID A new idea of the great part dart played by america in feeding the allied forces in europe is given in the 1919 year book of swift company which has had just been issued in 1918 these products shipped abroad totaled pounds more than three times time the amount shipped in 1914 the first year of the w war r the pork shipments totaled sa s1 1691 5 4 pounds as against in 1914 in an increase of 83 per cent duri during n 9 t the he year ending november 1 1918 swift company alone shipped pounds pound of meat and meet meat products to the american army and n navy av v at t home and abroad and to the s allied ili it nations for their arine aming end and cl civilian isn populations population the year book says say this amounts to about carloads of meat which would make ke a single train miles long S some me of the difficulties encountered in shipping are shown in the follo following ln the meat for europe has be gone cone in fleets of vessels under convoy and the food administration has often been unable to know very far in dyance advance when cargo space would be Imal available lable for this reason mason swift company h has a frequently bren notified that thal t a certain number of millions of poun pounds ds would be wanted at a certain por port t wit within hm a few day swift company has baa often had shipments on the way to the we dea board within I a few hours houra after the orders have been received and believes that it has met with signal success in the filling of such rush orders the packing industry was able to adopt adapt itself to wartime demands p perhaps more quickly than an other industry if this industry had not been organized on a large scale along alone national and even international lines ties it would never have been able to answer all demands as promptly as it has war demands have of course caus caused ad many changes in methods method and have made it necessary ne essary corua forua for ua toine to increase ae our facilities in many respects pay for example when the united states entered the war there developed a demand for canned bacon for shipment to our soldiers overseas swift company immediately took over a semi sem completed sojo fee factory and and it within thirty days had installed the necessary machinery and ad was fin filling government contracts more then than a million pounds of bacon a w week it have often been canned in this factory this means mean that our all soldiers chers have been getting fine cured am smoked aked bacon whereas the allies have been demanding only sli salt a bacon which does not have to be canoed canned another example showing the operation cooperation co that we have offered the G government vern ment was when the G government s rement found it necessary to have large quantities of butter wh which h it had bought for overseas adien af shipment e put into cans are swift company alone among the bis big butter handlers of th the a country was wait willing to anatall the necessary equipment and in ID the course of three weeks under the a most unfavorable circumstances began canning butter for t the he government up to the time this year so book A goes to press we have put up game come three million pounds of b butter atte r owned by the government and also two million pounds which we have gathered tor for ili the gaeu government at making a king a totz tota of five million pounds of butter that i have been pua put up in tins ah |